Christmas Day ♪

Morning of Christmas day.
I could see the sunrise as going toward work.

The seal center hold a Christmas event.
You could be taken a picture with Santa seal.

Winter Love

We love each other !

At Seal Center.

White illuminations Love

White illuminations starts in our city.

Love will become a deep love ?!

They already are in love mode at the seal center.

Deep kiss !

Wild seals appear

I heard that wild seals appear in port early this month.
So, finally I could see them at Garinko-boat port.

I took the block wind trees in evening.

Blue sky and mountain

A lot snow was falling, temperture was below zero last night.
Suny in this morning. The pond was frozen.
Sight of blue sky and mountain with snow is so beautiful.

Trees still have color leaves. This sight is beautiful too.

This seal was waiting for me at The Sea Paradise.

Swan has come at Lake Komuke

Swan has come at Lake Komuke.
They are on their long journy from north to south.
I think we can see them the end of November.

Today's seal center picture is HIYORI-chan. 1year old.
She looks at me ?

The First snow in this season

24th Oct
At morning, Snow was falling as open the curtain.
I think it was the first snow in this season.
I went to the Forest park, Mt.Oyama had been caverd with snow.

I also went to port. Fishing boats were in havy snow.

Colored leaves in their best

I went to Takinoue town. Autumn colors are in their best. This town is next to Mombetsu.

A vister take a walk river side path.

Red leaves are good gradation.

Violent stream in yellow leaves.

Waterfall in town.

Autumn color and Blue sky.

Golden leaves arch.

Salmon goes up in a river

Salmon goes up in a river which is their birth one.
This salmon ran out of energy.

There are salmons more than 100 near a bridge.

A stern face appeared from the surface of the water.

A sunset of the Mombetsu port

Beauriful sunset !

A seal mark bus

A bus departed at the bus terminal. The round trademark is a seal.

A puddle in the ranch

The early fall of this year has much rain. There was a puddle in the ranch.

Today's seal center. Because he took a nap, hair dried. Hair was bulky. The web of the foot is drying, too.

A prior autumn bus tour

I participated in a bus tour in prior autumn 1 week ago. It is a sightseeing tour to introduce autumn of Mombetsu.

We leave the bus terminal of Mombetsu at 8:20. It is Takinouecho of about 40 minutes from Mombetsu to have come first. Here is the noted place of colored leaves.

There was much green, but dead leafs fell into the step. The person of association of Takinoue town sightseeing guided us.

The ravine of the river is stained with red and yellow in the colored leaves time.

We made herb soap after having taken a walk through ravine. Takinoue is a production center of the herb.

We stopped at the shop of the ranch. There were a lot of cats.

An ice-cream cone was popular in this shop.

We ate lunch in a dining room of the fisheries processing ground. Seafood was delicious.

After a lunch, we went to the Lake Komuke. A nature guide guided us.

Coral grass turned red.

We came back to Mombetsu and went to the drift ice science center. The staff of the center commented. Soap bubbles were frozen in the room which could experience -20 degrees Celsius. There was the stuffed animal of the seal on the drift ice.

We went to the mini-aquarium of the Okhotsk tower. Wolf eel ate a small crab.

We went to the seal center. We touched a seal after having heard a commentary.

Finally we went to the hotel 100 years ago. A lot of old documents were exhibited.
We spent happy day.

Sunset at Lake Komuke !

I looked the beautiful sunset at Lake Komuke on last saturday!

3 typhoon passage

3 typhoon passed in a week.
A heavy rain continued untill yesterday.

Today was suny day.
Sunset was beautiful.

Visiters can touch a seal.

Children are in summer holidays.
Many children visited Seal Center.
Visiters can touch a seal.
That is a good point of this Center.

Cool wind in summer

I went to Hinode-misaki in Omu town.
Cool sea wind made me fine.

First English road bulletin board

Today high was 29 ℃.
It was the fine weekend after a long absence.
I went to Lake Komuke to take beautiful pictures.

On the way to the spot, there is a road likes the tunnel of the forest.
The blue exit is the Sea of Okhotsk

By the way, Lavender Park is still purple. but they became thin bit.

I found a English road bulletin board by Lavender Park.
It may be the first English bulletin board in Mombetsu.